Roger
Club Member
When you installed Windows 10 you doubtless agreed to its terms and conditions during installation. After all, Microsoft?s new service agreement is over 10,000 words long - who?s going to read that? Anyway, you can trust Microsoft can?t you? They wouldn?t spy on you? Or would they.
Well the Ts & Cs clearly state that Windows 10 will invade your privacy. For example
?We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to.?
Yes you read it correctly, they can read and record everything on your PC and share it with whoever they like.
Windows also generates a unique advertising ID for each user which can be used by third parties, for profiling purposes. Does this remind you of anything, spyware maybe?
Microsoft?s personal assistant software ?Cortana? collects and uses your location, content from your emails and text messages, events from your calendar, your contacts and how often you call them. When you browse it reports back what you view and what you purchase. Big brother also records and analyses speech input.
You can switch this off. For those that know what they are doing, all these settings can be disabled but it?s quite hard to find and do. There is a utility that will do it for you http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10, download and run - problem sorted.
Well the Ts & Cs clearly state that Windows 10 will invade your privacy. For example
?We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to.?
Yes you read it correctly, they can read and record everything on your PC and share it with whoever they like.
Windows also generates a unique advertising ID for each user which can be used by third parties, for profiling purposes. Does this remind you of anything, spyware maybe?
Microsoft?s personal assistant software ?Cortana? collects and uses your location, content from your emails and text messages, events from your calendar, your contacts and how often you call them. When you browse it reports back what you view and what you purchase. Big brother also records and analyses speech input.
You can switch this off. For those that know what they are doing, all these settings can be disabled but it?s quite hard to find and do. There is a utility that will do it for you http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10, download and run - problem sorted.
